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FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



Spices in the Imports from the West Africa Settle- 

 ments into the United Kingdom, and represent 

 industries of importance to the Native as well as 

 European, and capable of considerable expansion. The 

 local growth of the trade, without considering home 

 consumption, in these articles will be observed from 

 the following table of their export to the United 

 Kingdom, where they are admitted free of duty : — ■ 



Although the foregoing statistics appear as to 

 locality under the West African Settlements, yet a^ 

 neither ginger nor pepper come within the exports 

 from the Gambia, these figures must be deemed to 

 apply exclusively to Sierra Leone, where ginger has 

 been grown for some years, and where pepper has 

 developed into an article of export since 1880. So 

 far pepper plantations do not exist. 



